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Wattle vs Kiddle - What's the difference?

wattle | kiddle |

As nouns the difference between wattle and kiddle

is that wattle is a construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof while kiddle is a kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.

As a verb wattle

is to construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.

wattle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
  • * Tennyson
    • And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.
  • A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
  • A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
  • A barbel of a fish.
  • A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
  • Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
  • Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia , or their bark, used in tanning.

    • Derived terms

    * wattle and daub

    Coordinate terms

    * (skin on head of birds) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, snood

    Verb

    (wattl)
  • To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
    • English terms with homophones

    kiddle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of fishweir resembling a wattle or fence.